WWE treats its belts like props in the derogatory sense. That's not really debatable. Talking about how Charlotte getting the SD Women's Title is just a thing that is going to happen and not to think about it too much? That's just "lolWWE" stuff.'
That being said, the whole "prop" thing is a frustrating thing to me, just because "prop" doesn't necessarily need to be a bad word. The belts are props on their best days, but they can be props that mean something and are useful to telling the story. They can be more than a MacGuffin or set dressing. But that's just a semantics issue.
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